Once you get the file contents read into a string you can use Substring. No offense if you already knew this much. Substring takes two arguments - the index of the first character and the index of the last character. You could do something like

Word along with many other MS office products has a means of writing scripts. This is called VBA Visual Basic for applications. It's under tools/macro/visual basic editor. Perhaps this is what is meant by API?

Have you tried reading a .doc file with standard IO?

I've got to run now. If you haven't figured this out by the time I get back, I will try to help. Good luck.

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Yes I agree with the above. It depends on what kind of solution you are trying to provide. A couple years back I worked with a content managment system that published web templates from Word. It worked with a VBA script and validated documents to be published against a DTD. I didn't build it so I'm afraid I don't know much about it.

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In order to hide the "ugly" records selectors (triangles) in the rowheaders, here are some suggestions.
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